Sunday, 24 January 2010

Smoked Salmon Sushi Roll Recipe

I found this sushi recipe on Allrecipes.com and it's one of my favorites. It's one of the sushi recipes I always make if we have friends coming round for a Japanese meal.

Here's a little tip for making sushi easier:- make sure your fingers are wet when you're working with the sushi rice. This will keep the rice from sticking as much to your fingers, which makes it easier to complete the recipe. So here goes:

Smoked Salmon Sushi Roll

INGREDIENTS

* 2 cups Japanese sushi rice

* 6 tablespoons rice wine vinegar

* 6 sheets nori (dry seaweed)

* 1 avocado - peeled, pitted and sliced

* 1 cucumber, peeled and sliced

* 8 ounces smoked salmon, cut into long strips

* 2 tablespoons wasabi paste

DIRECTIONS

1. Soak rice for 4 hours. Drain rice and cook in a rice cooker with 2 cups of water. Rice must be slightly dry as vinegar will be added later.

2. Immediately after rice is cooked, mix in 6 tablespoons rice vinegar to the hot rice. Spread rice on a plate until completely cool.

3. Place 1 sheet of seaweed on bamboo mat, press a thin layer of cool rice on the seaweed. Leave at least 1/2 inch top and bottom edge of the seaweed uncovered. This is for easier sealing later. Dot some wasabi on the rice. Arrange cucumber, avocado and smoked salmon to the rice. Position them about 1 inch away from the bottom edge of the seaweed.

4. Slightly wet the top edge of the seaweed. Roll from bottom to the top edge with the help of the bamboo mat tightly. Cut roll into 8 equal pieces and serve. Repeat for other rolls.

Good luck with the recipe - I've found it pretty easy to follow and hope that it turns out the way you hoped.